Tribe of Reuben
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Nov 3, 2026
SamHOST
And so when you're marching off into war, like every one of the 12 tribes, right, that's surrounding the tabernacle, they have one of these.
SamHOST
It's like if you're a Reubenite, here's the banner of Reuben that we walk under.
SamHOST
And he's like, I want all you rebels, all you people that are just absolutely coming after me and you accuse me of evil.
SamHOST
I want you to make a banner.
Dave CurrierNARRATOR
To these hard conditions Jacob assented, and in the course of time became the father of a numerous family, eleven sons and one daughter.
Dave CurrierNARRATOR
Of these, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and a daughter Dinah were born to Leah, Dan and Naphtali to Bilhah Rachel's maid, whom the latter, finding she had no children, gave to Jacob as a secondary wife, Gad and Asher to Zilpah, Leah's maid, and Joseph to Rachel.
Dave CurrierNARRATOR
Shortly after the birth of this last son, Jacob having completed his time of service, proposed to Laban that he should return into his own country.
Dave CurrierNARRATOR
But the latter, who had found by experience that his son-in-law had brought a blessing to his house, prevailed upon him to continue in his service, on condition of receiving a certain portion of the flocks as his hire.
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speaker_7NARRATOR
Joseph set out, and being directed by a man whom he met to Dothan, or the Two Wells, a place about twelve miles north of Shechem, famous for its pasturage, he went thither in quest of them.
speaker_7NARRATOR
From the rising ground where they were keeping their flocks, the brothers descried the dreamer approaching, and straightaway resolved to slay him and cast him into a pit, and then report to his father that he had been devoured by wild beasts.
speaker_7NARRATOR
From actually putting him to death they were, however, dissuaded by Reuben, and contented themselves with stripping him of his coat of many colors, and casting him into an empty cistern, intending probably to let him die by hunger.
speaker_7NARRATOR
But when they had done this, and had sat down to eat, a company of Ishmaelite, or Midianite merchants, for the two names are used interchangeably, approached, mounted on camels, and bearing spicery and balm, going down the high road which passed near from Gilead to Egypt.
Dylan JohnsonGUEST
They capture their cities, and they take control of this land east of the Jordan River.
Dylan JohnsonGUEST
So this lays the groundwork for the eastern tribes of Israel, Gad and Reuben, that are considered Israel, but they're actually technically outside the Promised Land.
Dylan JohnsonGUEST
There are interesting other dynamics about these two and how they're remembered.
Dylan JohnsonGUEST
The most important is that they eventually become associated with first off, other semi-mythical groups, the Nephilim, the Anakim, the Rephaim, and in fact, one of the kings is remembered as, Og is remembered as the last of the Rephaim, a giant, and it actually talks about King Og's giant iron bed, which is something like nine by four cubits, which is essentially 13 and a half feet by six feet.
SimeonHOST
That was a prophecy that he gave and it was fulfilled literally in Israel's history.
SimeonHOST
As you read the Bible, correct me if I'm wrong, you will never find the tribe of Reuben producing any great leaders, right? I can't think of one great leader that came out of the tribe of Reuben.
SimeonHOST
In later journeys to the Promised Land, the Reubenites were the first tribe to ask for a place to settle, not waiting to cross the Jordan with the others, Numbers 32.
SimeonHOST
And Dathan and Abiram, those two dudes, those two fellas, were Reubenites who gave leadership in the rebellion of Korah, number 16.1.
SimeonHOST
So yes, the Reubenites don't have a good name in the Bible but they helped there with the rebellion of Korah which led to the deaths of thousands of people.
SimeonHOST
So there's a prophecy here concerning Reuben, he would not excel and that's exactly what happened.
SimeonHOST
Then we have Simeon and Levi, verse 5 to 7.
Ken RushGUEST
But before we cross this Jordan, Joshua turns to three tribes.
Ken RushGUEST
Reuben, to Gad, and to Manasseh.
Ken RushGUEST
And he says, now you three are different.
Ken RushGUEST
You're already home.
Carol MillerPANELIST
But you shall pass before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valor, and help them.
Latara BurleyGUEST
So now he's talking to, I think, the Reubenites, the Gadites and the tribe of Manasseh because they had their inheritance on this side of the Jordan River.
Latara BurleyGUEST
But now he's telling them, you know, you're going to be armed, you know, men of mighty men, men of valor.
Latara BurleyGUEST
And, you know, you're going to keep going.
Conrad MbeweHOST
He did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin.
Conrad MbeweHOST
In those days, the Lord began to cut off parts of Israel Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel, from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manasites, from Aroah, which is by the valley of the Arnon, that is, Gilead and Bashan.
Conrad MbeweHOST
Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? So Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria, and Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place.
Conrad MbeweHOST
The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.
Kristyn GettyHOST
Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel.
Kristyn GettyHOST
From the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manasites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, that is, Gilead and Bashan.
Kristyn GettyHOST
Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? So Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria.
Kristyn GettyHOST
And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place.
Lazer BrodyHOST
They're on back in the east side.
Lazer BrodyHOST
Now, the Reubenites, the Gadites, that tribe of Manasseh, they crossed over, armed and lead of the Israelites as Moses commanded them.
Lazer BrodyHOST
These are the Transjordanian tribes, the ones that inherited the land on the east side of the Jordan.
Lazer BrodyHOST
the tribe of Reuven, the tribe of Gad, and the half-tribe of Menashe.
TimHOST
Land east of the Jordan, verse 8.
TimHOST
The other half tribe of Manasseh with the Reubenites and the Gadites had been given the inheritance by Moses on the other side of the Jordan, east where Moses, the servant of God, gave it to them.
TimHOST
OK, thank you for that.
TimHOST
So that kind of goes on.
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